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Burne-Jones|ˈbɜːn ˈdʒəʊnz| The name of E. C. Burne-Jones (1833–98), English artist and designer, used attrib. to designate art or a type of beauty suggestive of or characteristic of the work of Burne-Jones.
1892E. Lytton Let. 15 Nov. in E. Lutyens Blessed Girl (1953) ix. 172 Lady Grandby is a beauty of the Burne-Jones type. 1958J. Cannan And be a Villain i. 25 Her Burne-Jones beauty. 1967Vogue June 78 The Burne-Jones type was pale and lissom and romantic, hollow-cheeked and with haunted eyes. Hence Burne-ˈJonesian a. and n.
1895G. B. Shaw Theatres in Nineties (1932) I. 17 He has a beautiful costume, mostly of plate-armor of Burne-Jonesian design. 1908D. H. Lawrence Let. 26 Oct. (1962) I. 32 Shall I make her longer or shorter, fatter or frailer, a Burne-Jonesian or a Moore? 1925W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxv. 241 His sisters, pale, sweet, Burne-Jonesian. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai ix. 139 The injection of a few rich commercial corpuscles into our pale Burne-Jonesian fluid. |